EP0020446B1 - Dual pattern windshield washer nozzle - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to dual pattern spray nozzles and, more particularly, to spray nozzles employed as windshield washers.
- Windshield washer nozzles of the straight jet type require plural nozzles to cover the area to be cleaned on a vehicle windshield.
- these nozzles create an initial film or puddle of liquid which impedes visibility until wiped by the windshield wipers.
- These problems are solved by using a swept jet fluidic oscillator in which the swept jet forms a fan pattern and breaks up into small droplets which wet the required area without forming a film or puddle.
- such fluidic oscillator nozzles have the disadvantage of issuing a significant amount of liquid in the middle of the windshield where it is not needed.
- the sweep angle of the jet tends to be rather small, resulting in a narrowly swept or non-swept jet being issued onto the middle of the windshield rather than towards the driver's and passenger's sides.
- a fluidic windshield washer nozzle of the type described above is disclosed in JP-A-52 31428 and US-A-4 157 161, on intermediate document corresponding to JP-A-52 31428.
- the swept jet oscillator when in a proper oscillation mode, issues some liquid at the center of the windshield where it is not needed.
- all of the liquid is issued at the center of the windshield.
- a second embodiment in the aforesaid patent application comprises an oscillator which alternately issues liquid pulses on opposite sides of a flow splitter in the oscillator outlet so that said alternately issuing liquid pulses are directed toward the driver and passenger sides, respectively. This latter embodiment suffers from the disadvantage of creating an initial puddle or film which impedes visibility until wiped clear by the windshield wipers.
- a device for receiving pressurized fluid and dispersing that fluid simultaneously in two distinct cyclical flow patterns comprising:
- the invention provides a windshield washer device for spraying wash liquid onto a vehicle windshield comprising:
- a windshield washer nozzle also invented by the inventor of the present invention has been disclosed in Patent Specification W079/00236, forming part of the background art according to Article 54(3).
- the oscillator includes an obstacle or island placed in the path of a defined liquid stream to create a vortex street downstream of the island, the vortex street causing the resulting issued liquid jet to sweep back and forth, whereupon it breaks up into small droplets.
- the inventor has now discovered that if a flow splitter is placed at a location within the cavitation region formed downstream of the vortex-shedding island, the vortices issue alternately from either side of the splitter. Each liquid vortex breaks up into ligaments and then droplets which are distributed over respective sides of a windshield.
- the sidewalls of the oscillator are preferably made to diverge at angles consistent with establishing Coanda effect, thereby permiting the nozzle to be designed with desired angles subtended by the two issued fan-shaped patterns.
- a windshield washer nozzle for spraying wash liquid onto a vehicle windshield comprising:
- the improved windshield washer nozzle has the advantage that two fan-shaped patterns are issued from a single oscillator and no droplets are deposited at the middle of the windshield. Further, if the temperature drops so low as to prevent or substantially limit oscillation, two non-oscillating, or slightly oscillating jets are issued at the driver and passenger sides, respectively, of the windshield rather than between those areas where wetting is not required.
- the invention further provides a method of producing a dual pattern sweeping jet spray, comprising the steps of:
- a fluidic spray device 10 constructed in accordance with the present invention is secured to a motor vehicle forward of the vehicle windshield 11. Fluidic spray device 10 is disposed generally along the longitudinal centerline of the vehicle so that the device is substantially centered with respect to the windshield. Wash liquid under pressure is supplied to spray device 10 in any conventional manner such as that described in the aforementioned JP-A-52 31428.
- Spray device 10 issues the pressurized wash liquid in two distinct spray patterns 12 and 13.
- Spray pattern 12 is a fan-shaped distribution of droplets directed toward the passenger side of the windshield;
- spray pattern 13 is a fan-shaped distribution of droplets directed toward the driver side of the windshield.
- the droplets in spray pattern 12 are readily wiped clear by windshield wiper 14; wiper 15 serves the same function for the droplets from pattern 13.
- no liquid is sprayed on to the midportion of windshield 11 between the driver and passenger sides.
- the two sweeping spray patterns emanate from a single fluidic oscillator, described below.
- spray device 10 comprises a fluidic oscillator of the general type described in W079/00236.
- an integral molded plastics body comprises a chamber having a top wall 21, a bottom wall 22, a left sidewall 23, a right sidewall 24 and an upstream end wall 25.
- Upstream end wall 25 is of semi-circular configuration for the specific embodiment illustrated in order to facilitate fabrication; it is to be understood, however, that this is not an essential feature.
- the depth dimension of the chamber is the smallest of its three dimensions and is defined between parallel top wall 21 and bottom wall 22.
- the width dimension of the chamber is defined between sidewalls 23 and 24 and is considerably greater than the depth dimension.
- Sidewalls 23 and 24 are substantially parallel throughout most of the chamber but include divergently curved portions 30, 31, respectively, at the chamber downstream end.
- the length dimension of device 10, between upstream wall 25 and the open downstream end, is the largest of the three dimensions. It should be noted, however, that the length and width dimensions may be more nearly equal, or the width may be made larger than the length, for a specified application.
- a circular inlet opening 26 is defined through bottom wall 22 and is adapted to receive a suitable fitting or hose connection by which pressurized wash liquid may be supplied to the chamber 20.
- Half of opening 26 is co-extensive with semi-circular end wall 25 in this particular embodiment.
- An obstruction or island 27 extends between top wall 21 and bottom wall 22 at a location substantially centered between sidewalls 23 and 24.
- the upstream side 37 of island 27 is a small arcuate wall which is co-extensive with an arc of circular opening 26; this too is a matter of fabrication convenience and is not an essential feature.
- the sides of island 27 extend parallel in a downstream direction and then converge to an apex 38 located centrally between sidewalls 23, 24.
- a flow splitter disposed at the downstream end of chamber 20, defines left and right outlet openings 34, 35 and comprises two members 28, 29 extending from top wall 21 and bottom wall 22, respectively. More specifically, members 28 and 29 have the same width, which width is slightly smaller or generally of the same order of magnitude as the width of island 27. Member 28 tapers in the depth dimension to a straight edge which abuts a similar straight edge on similarly tapered member 29.
- the flow splitter may comprise a single member instead of two members 28, 29; however, the two-member approach facilitates removal of the mold tooling members during fabrication of spray device 10 as a single integral plastics unit.
- the flow splitter 28, 29 were absent, the liquid would issue from the outlet end of chamber 20 as a single jet which is cyclically swept under the influence of the vortex street.
- the flow splitter causes two alternating series of vortices to issue, one from outlet opening 34, the other from outlet opening 35.
- the vortices expand to fill the angular area between positions defined by a curving sidewall and the flow splitter. For example, each liquid vortex issued from outlet opening 34 expands between one extreme position, wherein it is guided by the Coanda effect along sidewall 32, and a second extreme position defined by flow splitter 28, 29.
- Figure 4 illustrates schematically a washer nozzle 10, its actuating mechanism, and the dual pattern spray issued from the washer nozzle.
- the actuator of Figure 4 is entirely conventional and is merely intended to serve as one example of numerous types of actuators which serve the same function.
- a reservoir 41 of wash liquid is arranged to have liquid pumped therefrom by means of a pump 42 acting via flow tube 46. The pumped liquid is supplied via tube 47 to sprayer nozzle 10.
- Pump 42 is actuated by an operator-controlled switch 44 which initiates a time cycle at timer 43. For the predetermined time cycle of the timer, which typically may be one to five seconds, pump 42 is rendered operative to draw wash liquid from reservoir 41 and deliver it to nozzle 10.
- the two patterns issued from nozzle 10 are 180° out of phase; that is, the vortices issue alternately from each side of the flow divider.
- the vortices are oppositely directed in that vortices on one side of the flow divider spin clockwise while those issued from the other side spin counterclockwise.
- Each vortex tends to expand transversely of the net flow direction, the expansion being limited by the initial constraints provided by the flow splitter 28, 29 and the Coanda side wall 30 or 31.
- the spinning liquid breaks up into ligaments which in turn break up into droplets.
- substantially no liquid flows into the space between the two fan-shaped patterns. Therefore, all of the liquid is delivered to those areas of the windshield where it is needed.
- the pressure of the applied wash liquid is increased high enough the fan-shaped patterns tend to merge toward one another to form a single fan pattern.
- the pressure of the applied liquid is kept low enough to prevent merging of the two patterns.
- this island-type oscillator has very low pressure threshold requirements for achieving oscillation, in the order of a few tens of gm/cm 2 , depending on the oscillator size. Nevertheless, should non-oscillating conditions occur, it is noted that two non-swept jets issue from device 10. These non-swept jets are directed by the Coanda effect along wall portions 30, 31 so that the jets diverge. For windshiend washer applications, therefore, these non-swept jets are directed toward the driver and passenger portions of the windshield rather than to the middle of the windshield where the liquid is not needed.
- the island 27 need not be centered between sidewalls 23, 24; nor need it be symmetrically constructed; nor need it have the shape described. Variations in any of these parameters can be used to configure the spray patterns issued from the device. Likewise, the symmetry of wall portions 30, 31 is not a requirement; nor is the symmetrical placement of inlet opening 26; nor the symmetrical relationship between outlet openings 34, 35.
- Typical, but not essential, dimensions for the oscillator of Figures 2, 3 as used for windshield washer applications would be as follows: width of island 27: 1.91 mm; length of island 27: 1.37 mm; spacing between upstream surface of island 27 and downstream end of device 10: 9.45 mm; width of chamber 20 between parallel sidewall portions 23, 24: 4.27 mm; width of flow splitter 28, 29: 1.27 mm; length of flow splitter 28, 29: 0.43 mm; width of steps 32, 33: 0.2 mm; curved wall portions 30, 31 are formed on a 2.54 mm radius; depth of chamber 20 between top and bottom walls 21, 33: 0.53 mm.
- spray device 10 can be injection molded as a single piece of plastics material in the manner described in W079/00236.
- many of the island-type oscillator configurations illustrated in that patent specification may be employed with a flow divider in accordance with the present invention.
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- The present invention relates to dual pattern spray nozzles and, more particularly, to spray nozzles employed as windshield washers.
- Windshield washer nozzles of the straight jet type require plural nozzles to cover the area to be cleaned on a vehicle windshield. In addition, these nozzles create an initial film or puddle of liquid which impedes visibility until wiped by the windshield wipers. These problems are solved by using a swept jet fluidic oscillator in which the swept jet forms a fan pattern and breaks up into small droplets which wet the required area without forming a film or puddle. However, such fluidic oscillator nozzles have the disadvantage of issuing a significant amount of liquid in the middle of the windshield where it is not needed. In addition, at lower temperatures the sweep angle of the jet tends to be rather small, resulting in a narrowly swept or non-swept jet being issued onto the middle of the windshield rather than towards the driver's and passenger's sides.
- A fluidic windshield washer nozzle of the type described above is disclosed in JP-A-52 31428 and US-A-4 157 161, on intermediate document corresponding to JP-A-52 31428. In one embodiment disclosed therein the swept jet oscillator, when in a proper oscillation mode, issues some liquid at the center of the windshield where it is not needed. In addition, when low temperatures limit the sweep angle of the oscillator, all of the liquid is issued at the center of the windshield. A second embodiment in the aforesaid patent application comprises an oscillator which alternately issues liquid pulses on opposite sides of a flow splitter in the oscillator outlet so that said alternately issuing liquid pulses are directed toward the driver and passenger sides, respectively. This latter embodiment suffers from the disadvantage of creating an initial puddle or film which impedes visibility until wiped clear by the windshield wipers.
- According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a device for receiving pressurized fluid and dispersing that fluid simultaneously in two distinct cyclical flow patterns, said device comprising:
- a housing;
- a chamber defined in said housing, said chamber having a top wall, a bottom wall, an upstream end, an open downstream end, and two opposed sidewalls extending between said upstream and downstream ends;
- inlet means opening into said chamber, said inlet means being adapted to admit pressurized fluid into said chamber;
- and flow splitter means disposed in said housing to define two distinct outlet openings with the respective opposed sidewalls at the open downstream end of said chamber from which said flow patterns alternately issue to an ambient environment, characterised by vortex-shedding means in said chamber comprising an obstruction body having surface means disposed in the flow path between said inlet means and said open downstream end and upstream of said open downstream end to create downstream of the surface means a cavitation region around which vortices of clockwise and counterclockwise flow directions are alternately shed by said surface means to travel along with the pressurized fluid toward said outlet openings, said flow splitter means being disposed downstream of said vortex-shedding means in said cavitation region thereby to cause said clockwise and counterclockwise flowing vortices to issue from said two outlet openings alternately.
- According to another aspect, the invention provides a windshield washer device for spraying wash liquid onto a vehicle windshield comprising:
- a housing;
- a chamber defined in said housing, said chamber having inlet and outlet openings,
- means for supplying pressurized wash liquid to said inlet opening; and
- flow splitter means positioned to divide the issuing wash liquid into two separate flows directed toward said windshield;
- characterised in that said housing is moulded plastics material; and by an obstruction body in said chamber upstream of said flow splitter means and constituting part of said housing to form in the flow of liquid passing from the inlet opening to the flow splitter means two cyclical flow patterns that are divided by said flow splitter means and issued as two distinct and separate cyclically sweeping flows each of which breaks up into liquid droplets before impinging upon said windshield.
- A windshield washer nozzle also invented by the inventor of the present invention has been disclosed in Patent Specification W079/00236, forming part of the background art according to Article 54(3). In that device, the oscillator includes an obstacle or island placed in the path of a defined liquid stream to create a vortex street downstream of the island, the vortex street causing the resulting issued liquid jet to sweep back and forth, whereupon it breaks up into small droplets. The inventor has now discovered that if a flow splitter is placed at a location within the cavitation region formed downstream of the vortex-shedding island, the vortices issue alternately from either side of the splitter. Each liquid vortex breaks up into ligaments and then droplets which are distributed over respective sides of a windshield. The sidewalls of the oscillator are preferably made to diverge at angles consistent with establishing Coanda effect, thereby permiting the nozzle to be designed with desired angles subtended by the two issued fan-shaped patterns.
- Accordingly, the invention provides, according to a further aspect, a windshield washer nozzle for spraying wash liquid onto a vehicle windshield comprising:
- a chamber having an inlet opening; and
- flow splitter means defining first and second distinct outlet openings;
- characterised by an obstruction body positioned in said chamber upstream of said outlet openings to be impinged upon by liquid flowing between said inlet and outlet openings, for alternately establishing clockwise-flowing and counterclockwise-flowing vortices in the flowing liquid, said clockwise-flowing and counterclockwise-flowing vortices issuing through said first and second distinct openings toward respective distinct areas on said windshield.
- The improved windshield washer nozzle has the advantage that two fan-shaped patterns are issued from a single oscillator and no droplets are deposited at the middle of the windshield. Further, if the temperature drops so low as to prevent or substantially limit oscillation, two non-oscillating, or slightly oscillating jets are issued at the driver and passenger sides, respectively, of the windshield rather than between those areas where wetting is not required.
- The invention further provides a method of producing a dual pattern sweeping jet spray, comprising the steps of:
- causing a stream of liquid flowing in a chamber to impinge on and flow around both sides of an obstruction body in said chamber thereby to create two cyclical flow patterns in the form of a series of clockwise-flowing and counterclockwise-flowing vortices; and issuing the two cyclical flow patterns of vortices to an ambient environment from either side of a flow splitter as two sweeping jet sprays.
- One embodiment of the invention will now be described by way of example and with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:
- Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a motor vehicle windshield and spray apparatus according to the present invention;
- Figure 2 is a view in longitudinal section of a fluidic spray apparatus employed in Figure 1 and taken on lines 2-2 of Figure 3;
- Figure 3 is a view in transverse section of the fluidic spray apparatus taken on lines 3-3 of Figure 2; and
- Figure 4 is a diagrammatic illustration of the fluidic spray apparatus illustrating the spray pattern issued therefrom.
- Referring to the drawings, a
fluidic spray device 10 constructed in accordance with the present invention is secured to a motor vehicle forward of thevehicle windshield 11.Fluidic spray device 10 is disposed generally along the longitudinal centerline of the vehicle so that the device is substantially centered with respect to the windshield. Wash liquid under pressure is supplied tospray device 10 in any conventional manner such as that described in the aforementioned JP-A-52 31428. -
Spray device 10, in a manner described below, issues the pressurized wash liquid in twodistinct spray patterns Spray pattern 12 is a fan-shaped distribution of droplets directed toward the passenger side of the windshield;spray pattern 13 is a fan-shaped distribution of droplets directed toward the driver side of the windshield. The droplets inspray pattern 12 are readily wiped clear bywindshield wiper 14;wiper 15 serves the same function for the droplets frompattern 13. Importantly, no liquid is sprayed on to the midportion ofwindshield 11 between the driver and passenger sides. Also important is the fact that the two sweeping spray patterns emanate from a single fluidic oscillator, described below. - Referring to Figures 2 and 3,
spray device 10 comprises a fluidic oscillator of the general type described in W079/00236. Specifically, an integral molded plastics body comprises a chamber having atop wall 21, abottom wall 22, aleft sidewall 23, aright sidewall 24 and anupstream end wall 25.Upstream end wall 25 is of semi-circular configuration for the specific embodiment illustrated in order to facilitate fabrication; it is to be understood, however, that this is not an essential feature. The depth dimension of the chamber is the smallest of its three dimensions and is defined betweenparallel top wall 21 andbottom wall 22. The width dimension of the chamber is defined betweensidewalls Sidewalls curved portions device 10, betweenupstream wall 25 and the open downstream end, is the largest of the three dimensions. It should be noted, however, that the length and width dimensions may be more nearly equal, or the width may be made larger than the length, for a specified application. - A circular inlet opening 26 is defined through
bottom wall 22 and is adapted to receive a suitable fitting or hose connection by which pressurized wash liquid may be supplied to thechamber 20. Half of opening 26 is co-extensive withsemi-circular end wall 25 in this particular embodiment. An obstruction orisland 27 extends betweentop wall 21 andbottom wall 22 at a location substantially centered betweensidewalls upstream side 37 ofisland 27 is a small arcuate wall which is co-extensive with an arc ofcircular opening 26; this too is a matter of fabrication convenience and is not an essential feature. The sides ofisland 27 extend parallel in a downstream direction and then converge to anapex 38 located centrally betweensidewalls - A flow splitter, disposed at the downstream end of
chamber 20, defines left andright outlet openings members top wall 21 andbottom wall 22, respectively. More specifically,members island 27.Member 28 tapers in the depth dimension to a straight edge which abuts a similar straight edge on similarly taperedmember 29. Alternatively, the flow splitter may comprise a single member instead of twomembers spray device 10 as a single integral plastics unit. - The transition between the parallel portions of
sidewalls portions sections - Pressurized liquid entering inlet opening 26 naturally flows towards the open outlet end of
device 10. As described in W079/00236,island 27 causes alternating vortices to be shed therefrom downstream of the island, which vortices form the well known Karman vortex street pattern. These vortices subsist at the sides of thechamber 20. The region in the middle of the chamber, downstream ofisland 27, experiences cavitation.Flow splitter island 27 as to be within this cavitation region. - If the
flow splitter chamber 20 as a single jet which is cyclically swept under the influence of the vortex street. We have found, however, that the flow splitter causes two alternating series of vortices to issue, one from outlet opening 34, the other fromoutlet opening 35. The vortices expand to fill the angular area between positions defined by a curving sidewall and the flow splitter. For example, each liquid vortex issued from outlet opening 34 expands between one extreme position, wherein it is guided by the Coanda effect alongsidewall 32, and a second extreme position defined byflow splitter - Figure 4 illustrates schematically a
washer nozzle 10, its actuating mechanism, and the dual pattern spray issued from the washer nozzle. It should be noted that the actuator of Figure 4 is entirely conventional and is merely intended to serve as one example of numerous types of actuators which serve the same function. Areservoir 41 of wash liquid is arranged to have liquid pumped therefrom by means of apump 42 acting viaflow tube 46. The pumped liquid is supplied viatube 47 tosprayer nozzle 10.Pump 42 is actuated by an operator-controlledswitch 44 which initiates a time cycle attimer 43. For the predetermined time cycle of the timer, which typically may be one to five seconds, pump 42 is rendered operative to draw wash liquid fromreservoir 41 and deliver it tonozzle 10. - The two patterns issued from
nozzle 10 are 180° out of phase; that is, the vortices issue alternately from each side of the flow divider. In addition, the vortices are oppositely directed in that vortices on one side of the flow divider spin clockwise while those issued from the other side spin counterclockwise. Each vortex tends to expand transversely of the net flow direction, the expansion being limited by the initial constraints provided by theflow splitter Coanda side wall - If the pressure of the applied wash liquid is increased high enough the fan-shaped patterns tend to merge toward one another to form a single fan pattern. For purposes of windshield washer applications (and other applications where two distinct patterns are desired), the pressure of the applied liquid is kept low enough to prevent merging of the two patterns.
- If the pressure of the applied liquid is too low, or if the temperature of the liquid is too low, no vortices are shed by
island 27. As described in W079/00236, this island-type oscillator has very low pressure threshold requirements for achieving oscillation, in the order of a few tens of gm/cm2, depending on the oscillator size. Nevertheless, should non-oscillating conditions occur, it is noted that two non-swept jets issue fromdevice 10. These non-swept jets are directed by the Coanda effect alongwall portions - It will be appreciated that the
island 27 need not be centered betweensidewalls wall portions outlet openings - Typical, but not essential, dimensions for the oscillator of Figures 2, 3 as used for windshield washer applications would be as follows: width of island 27: 1.91 mm; length of island 27: 1.37 mm; spacing between upstream surface of
island 27 and downstream end of device 10: 9.45 mm; width ofchamber 20 betweenparallel sidewall portions 23, 24: 4.27 mm; width offlow splitter 28, 29: 1.27 mm; length offlow splitter 28, 29: 0.43 mm; width ofsteps 32, 33: 0.2 mm;curved wall portions chamber 20 between top andbottom walls 21, 33: 0.53 mm. - Advantageously,
spray device 10 can be injection molded as a single piece of plastics material in the manner described in W079/00236. In addition, if one-piece manufacture is not required, many of the island-type oscillator configurations illustrated in that patent specification may be employed with a flow divider in accordance with the present invention.
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